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Dread Quotes - Page 2

Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.

Soren Kierkegaard, Alastair Hannay (2014). “The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin”, p.51, W. W. Norton & Company

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.

"Robert Anton Wilson" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2007.

Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, "Annales", III. 39, (pp. 762-763), 1922.

There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.124

Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends; He hurts me most who lavishly commends.

Charles Churchill, James L. Hannay (1866). “Poetical Works: With a Memoir by James L. Hannay and Copious Notes by W. Tooke”, p.64

The burnt child dreads the fire.

Ben Jonson, Peter Happe (1996). “The Devil Is An Ass”, p.69, Manchester University Press

We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.

"Les Caractères", XI, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 12-17, 1922.

The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.

William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.160

And death? I don't fear death. I dread the absence of it.

Robert Charles Wilson (2000). “The Perseids and Other Stories”, p.140, Macmillan